Bleach Your Hair Platinum Blonde

Right now you may be a raven black brunette, but may wish to be a newborn chic blonde. There are lots of products available on the market to help you get your desired blonde hues. Following manufacturer directions for each of the products you choose is always a good idea, but here are the general steps for the whole process to help you along the way, too.

Steps

Preparing for Bleaching

  1. Get your supplies. If you buy ingredients separately rather than in a kit, it is cheap. You can bleach your hair, then mix small amounts of the chemicals later to touch up your roots.
  2. Consider doing a test bleach. You can get some hair from your hairbrush and going through the bleaching process with it to test how it will go. It's better to test it out first; that way, there won't be any surprise you'll have to grow out!
  3. Wash your hair a few days before you intend to bleach. Don't use styling products that may cause buildup. Leaving your natural oils on your head helps to protect your scalp and hair.
  4. Oil your hair. The night before you intend to bleach, soak your hair in coconut oil and leave it in overnight. Again, this helps protect your hair and scalp from damage.
  5. Gather your equipment, some old towels, and ventilate the area. Once you begin, you must work quickly to avoid burns, so having it all there helps.
  6. Prepare: Brush out your hair. Put on your goggles and gloves! Add tape around them to protect your eyes.
    • Note: You should wear a button down shirt or a loose fitting top so that you can take off your shirt to rinse your hair without getting bleach all over your clothes.

Applying Bleach

  1. Part your hair in 4 sections. Liberally smear around your hairline, ears and neck with Vaseline to provide a barrier between the bleach and your skin.
  2. Pour 2-3 ounces (60-90 ml) of cream developer into a plastic mixing bowl. Add 2 ounces (60 ml) of bleaching powder (or 1 scoop of clear developer and 1 scoop of bleach), in a room with windows. Remember that you will get a higher lift if you use 30 or 40 volume. They also have a higher risk of burning your scalp.
  3. Set a timer so that you know when you started the bleach application. Then commence mixing the bleach and developer mixture. Prepare to apply the mixture.
  4. With a brush, start applying the bleach at the back. DO NOT start at your roots, unless you want to come out with lighter roots and darker ends.
    • You can put foil under a section of hair, paint on the bleach, then wrap up that section in foil if you like. Make sure it is hairdressing foil and not tin foil from the grocery store or you could damage your hair.
  5. Add bleach all over your head. Keep {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}} away from your roots initially. After you have finished the rest of your hair, apply the bleach mix to your roots, being careful not to massage it into your scalp too much.
    • Avoid putting the bleach directly onto your scalp. If you do, it will sting or burn a little bit, and it will hurt a bit. If it burns a lot, this is a chemical burn. Rinse it out immediately.
  6. Adjust your process for darker spots, if desired. You may wish to put more bleach, earlier, on whichever part of your hair is darker. So if your roots are dark and the rest of your hair has been bleached before, bleach the roots for 15 or 30 minutes longer than the rest of your hair. If your roots are light or blonde and the rest of your hair is darker, paint the dark bits first.

Waiting and Rinsing

  1. Cover your hair. Put a shower cap, aluminum foil, or clear/white plastic bag over your hair. Make sure it's not covering your face, but is over all of your hair. Then tie it at the nape of your neck, making sure all of your hair is tucked underneath the bag.
    • If you want a higher lift, use aluminum foil instead of a plastic bag.
    • If you are using a grocery bag, make sure the side with printing on it is NOT against your head, or you will wind up with the color of the print processed into your hair a bit.
  2. Leave it like this for 40 minutes from when you first started applying the bleach. Check your timer. If you leave it on for longer, it won't get any lighter, it will only damage your hair more.
    • Check the color all the time. Once at a pale yellow, you must wash off the bleach. Don't leave bleach on for over an hour. Don't bleach once at pale yellow or hair will break.
    • If not at pale yellow then rinse it out, tone your hair and wait a month to re-bleach your hair. (See Following Up with More Bleaching.)
  3. Rinse out the bleach when your hair is light enough. Wash out with a PH neutralizing shampoo. This will stop any further acidic or basic chemical reactions from occurring on your head. This will formally end the bleaching process.
    • You ‘’must’’ wash out the bleach mixture completely, or else you will damage your hair. After a while, the developer and powder stop reacting and your hair won't bleach any more, only become more damaged. If you over-bleach, your hair might end up feeling a little bit straw-like and brittle. If you're in doubt, rinse it out.
    • Make sure to use a shampoo and conditioner designed for bleached blonde hair to eliminate any yellow and make your hair bright platinum and white. Any purple shampoo is fine. Remember purple counteracts yellow, makes it white, and eliminates brassiness.

Finishing the Process

  1. Add toner/dye if desired. Once hair is pale yellow, it is time to tone or color, if desired. Toner is semi-permanent hair dye that can counteract some of the unwanted hues from bleaching.[1]
    • For a natural platinum look, dye it with a natural blonde mixture with 20 developer, since hair is already bleached. Leave on 25 minutes.
    • For pale silver platinum, use a platinum dye with 20 developer, and leave on for 25 minutes.
    • For yellowish-white, leave it the way it is after completely stripping all the color with the bleach. Use a lot of purple shampoo to eliminate and dull yellow or dye it a level 12 color. Leave on 25 minutes.
    • For white blonde or white use a white blonde toner, and leave on 25 minutes. Many of these toners are semi permanent, so color will fade and you can redo the toner the following week.
  2. Condition, condition, condition. Make sure your hair gets repair treatment and keratin protein and softening treatments. User a deep conditioning at least once a week
  3. Use a protein treatment to strengthen your hair. Bleaching weakens your hair a lot, so adding protein will make it stronger and less susceptible to breakage. This takes a few hours to harden and about half an hour to wash out, so you must allow time to do it properly if you choose it.

Following up with More Bleaching

  1. Don't bleach again right away. If you under-bleach, and your hair is an orange tone, you must wait a month in order to avoid damage to your hair and skin and then bleach it once more.
  2. Repeat the bleaching process after one month for even lighter hair. Apply once a month, until your hair is a light yellowish color. Use the same process as above: shampoo with a pH balancing shampoo, apply toner as desired, and be generous with conditioning treatments.
  3. After about 40 minutes (depending on your toner), wash, condition and dry as before.
  4. Be careful with the whole process. Do not bleach or dye your hair for more than an hour at a time, and always leave a month in between for processing time for your hair and scalp to heal. Otherwise, your hair will be damaged, dull, frizzy. Hair will become brittle and tend to break and there's a possibility your head will be covered in scabs, which will develop into bald spots. Always condition in between! Be patient.
  5. Rock your new blonde locks. Make sure you keep up the good care of your hair, since bleaching can be a rough process. Condition often and use protein treatments to strengthen your hair and prevent breakage.

Tips

  • Condition, condition, condition, condition.
  • Also, buy another hair dye, a darker one, or the same as your previous hair colour. That way, if it turns out bad, you can return to the same color. However, you should not process your hair with more chemicals, including dye, for at least 24 hours after bleaching.
  • Buy a hair serum/polisher to add to my dry blond hair.
  • You can NOT tone Orange or brassy color after bleach, unless using a demi permanent hair color with a blue pigment. Or you can bleach again and tone your now yellow hair with a violet based toner.
  • Don't scratch your scalp the day before you bleach your hair. Dry skin could be broken, and that would make the process painful.
  • Remove earrings, necklaces, and rings beforehand to avoid chemical reactions to the metals.

Warnings

  • Never use a metal clip or a metal mixing bowl!
  • Don't use chlorine bleach to color hair. The term "bleach" refers to hair bleach which can be purchased from beauty supply stores.
  • Chemical burns can give you bald spots!
  • Do not leave the bleach mix on for over an hour! You will get chemical burns and your hair will be destroyed!
  • Doing this too often will damage your hair.
  • Any bleach massaged in your scalp will most likely result in chemical burns, which are little scabs that not only are gross, but hurt! They are easy to get if you over process without giving your scalp a chance to breathe and heal!
  • If done wrong, it may turn your hair an orange color. You can remove the orange tone with a toner which can be purchased from beauty supply stores. (A toner tones down the orange or yellow so it can look more natural).
  • Bleaching hair with reddish tones will turn orange.
  • If you breathe in too much bleach while applying it to your hair, and start feeling nausea, call a doctor right away.
  • Do not let the bleach get onto bare skin or clothing.
  • Use gloves!
  • Virgin hair (hair that has never been touched by chemicals) is a lot easier to work with!! If you don't have virgin hair get Unred or blue bleach which will act as a bleach and a toner in one to reduce those reddish tones that we all hate so much.
  • Do not contact with eyes.
  • Wear goggles or you risk going blind!

Things You'll Need

  • Coconut oil
  • A loose sleeveless top (Thin/soft cotton is mostly recommended)
  • Latex or vinyl gloves
  • Old towels
  • Vaseline
  • The hair bleach of your choice
  • Shampoo and conditioner designed for bleach hair (for example, Shimmer Lights Shampoo for blonde and silver hair)
  • Cream Developer (You can get 30 or 40 strength - the higher the number, the stronger the bleach will be)
  • Hair coloring brush (a plastic 2 inches/5 cm wide paint brush to dip and spread the bleach on your hair)
  • Toner/dye, if desired
  • Protective eye goggles
  • Plastic or glass mixing bowl. NO METAL mixing bowls!
  • A hair covering: a loose plastic shower cap or a bandanna, or a hair coloring cap, or a clear or white grocery bag. It can't be a color bag or else your hair will take the color of the bag.
  • A protein treatment (optional)
  • Hair clips that open and close easily
  • Tin foil (optional/mainly used for streaks)

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://www.beeunique.co.uk/Hair-HowBleach.htm
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